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Hot Trip to Trinity Alps
Gear List 2-night to Trinity Alps in Norcal this weekend(July 24-26). Temps 95 degrees at the TH, 2300' elevation gains (in steps, thankfully) to 5900' elevation, mid 80s temps at camp. Never...
Isobutane Fuel Canister Estimator
I am experimenting with a way to estimate the number of fuel canisters that would be needed for a trip. Yes, there are a lot of factors involved, but this is my...
Gardner Basin 9/27-10/3/2016
Obligatory, uneditable first post I would have written this trip up in 2016, but I couldn't figure out how to use the new software back then. Doug Ide recently clued me in,...
Would seem ripping down jacket baffles make it warmer
I have a jacket that has those 2" horizontal ghost whisper baffles. Wondered if every other seem was ripped if it would essentially reduce the air permeability and enlarge the size of...
Why Do All Backpackers Use Dr. Bronner's Soap
For those of you using bar soap—doesn't it get mushy or messy? Do you keep it in a baggie? doesn’t it get mushy or messy? Nope. Wash hands, shake soap bar free...
New England-area GTG #3: It's in the Negatives No Matter What Temperature Scale (as long as its Centigrade or Fahrenheit...)
There is talk on the wires of another group over-nighter, most likely in the White Mountains, but the Adirondacks is another possibility. The goal would be for a route that does not...
Leave No Trace Survey
I am a student at Ohio University, I am conducting a survey for a Research Methods class. The survey asks several questions about how you implement Leave no Trace and then attempts...
Lightest insulated cup so far
I ran across this insulated plastic cup at a thrift store today. It is a simple plastic cup with a snap-on lid and a neoprene cozy. It hits my digital scale at...
Why go fast? Why go slow?
Some thoughts on going fast and slow, inspired by Matt Colon's lament of speed-focused backpacking in the BPL print mag. OK, readers, why do you go fast, or slow? A quote from...
Help Me Lighten my Load
I'm recently trying to get back into, or maybe just into back packing after a decade hiatus. I completed my first "light weight" trip with new gear, but I'm sure I can...
Critique my cook setup
A little background info... I was my crew leader at Philmont 14 years ago (when I was 14). My troop required one 2-night hike each month in the year prior to our...
Proposed Gear List for Ultralight Newbie
I'm working on creating a basic gear list before I go out and start making too many purchases. My focus for this list is 2-3 day, 3 season East coast(PA and surrounding...
Considering Starting a Youth Program
I'm a teacher in the Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska area, and for the past few years have been wanting to share my love of lightweight backpacking with my students. I'm...
No-Cook Food Plan
We gave up cooking on backpacking trips ~15 years ago. On trips of 2 to 4 days I just carry deli food. On trips of 5-11 days, I have a food packing...
JMT permit problems
Well not so my surprise the permits for the JMT filled up quicker than i had time to reserve one. Does anyone know of any optional way to get onto the JMT,...
Training & Workout
I did a few walks with a guy 20 years younger than me ( I am 55) During the walks he kept talking about his gym programme, martial art training and generally...
Shasta Trip Report ( Video Documentary)
Hey Kathleen, Thanks for the nice comments. Regarding the crampons...noooooo crampons on those boots. I think it looks like it, but I took them off. It is crazy to glissade with crampons...
backpacking with my wife
my non-backpacking, yet very supportive of the habit and patient about the gear conversations, wife has decided to go on an overnight with me as a birthday gift. sweet! in the past...
Steripen Journey is a poor product
I purchased a Steripen Adventurer, but returned it because it does not mate with the Steripen pre-filter. I exchanged it for the new Steripen Journey, which is advertised as mating with the...
What kind of training do you do?
What kind of training for Philmont are you doing with your crews? How many times do you take them backpacking? Are you using the Backpacking MB as a guide and Requirement #10?...
